Portland jazz musician Thara Memory dies at 68

Famed jazz trumpeter Thara John Memory died Saturday night, his attorney has confirmed. He was 68.

Memory was an Oregon Music Hall of Fame inductee and the mentor to jazz artist Esperanza Spalding. The two won a Grammy in 2013 for their collaboration on Spalding's song, "City of Roses."

He directed the American Music Program, a nonprofit where students in seventh- to 12th-grade learn jazz, as well as led an after-school jazz music program at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in Northeast Portland.

In February, Memory was indicted on allegations of third-degree sexual abuse, attempted third-degree sexual abuse and harassment of two girls and two women in Portland. Two were under age 18 during the alleged abuse.